Today, Etsy said farewell to its familiar golden lock icon. The tiny padlock graphic, indicating that a forum thread had been locked to prevent further comment, has disappeared for good. Admins still have the ability to close threads, but don’t bother to go lookin’ for them.
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Forum regulars will notice a tiny change today: the disappearance of the little golden lock icon. Threads will be referred to as “closed” instead of “locked” to reflect this change. That little 8-pixel icon carried some heavy baggage; we feel the weight lifting already!
Read the Storque article here.
edit by JB:
commenting on that Storque article is also closed.
December 4th, 2007 at 9:43 am
hazel Says:
December 1st, 2007 at 2:57 pm
I hope they sell the site.
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Ditto.
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:14 pm
The Besty link in the Etsy thread is to the old locked thread search. As dejavu notes, I’ve updated it to sift through “closed” threads. Many of those threads are cached as “locked” by google, and may stay that way for some time since most of them are stagnant and may not attract the googlebot very often any more. Besty will find both “closed” and “locked” threads.
December 2nd, 2007 at 2:38 am
They could also just blank out the identifying information too. Of course in some cases that’s less easy, but in a lot of cases it’s simple. And Etsy have done this in certain circumstances in the past so it puzzles me to not see it happening on an ongoing basis.
Also if they leave ‘bad’ posts up as a kind of punishment to the person who wrote the post, then removing the information which identifies a victim of calling out, for instance, still doesn’t alter that.
December 1st, 2007 at 11:28 pm
JB, I am in favour of deletion in the case of defamatory or abusive comments. Ideally, the individual post could be removed, with removal of the entire thread as a second-best option.
December 1st, 2007 at 11:00 pm
:-( The Besty search as linked in this thread doesn’t seem to work right anymore. But it looks like Dingo’s updated the search page at bestysearch.com to reflect closed threads instead of locked threads.